Horse-collar.



No. 663,02L Patented Dec. 4, I900.

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(Application filed Nuv. 10, 1898.)

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HORSE COLLAR.

(Application filed Nov. X0, 1898.) (No Modal.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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' NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN FRY AND JOHN WILLIAM BARNES, OF LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND.

HORSE-COLLAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 663,021, dated December 4, 1900. Application filed November 10, 1898- Serial No. 696,040; (No model.)

To all whom; it may concern:

Be it known that we, JOHN FRY and JOHN WILLIAM BARNES, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland,residing at 124; Dale street,Liverpool, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Horse- Oollars, (for which we have made application for patent in Great Britain under No. 8,879, dated April 16, 1898,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to horse-collars which possess a pneumatic or inflated lining; and it consists of certain structural arrangements whereby such pneumatic lining is more readily attached and detached than heretofore and whereby it is protected from being injured by the heavy pressures to which horse-collars are subjected.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view, and Fig. 2 a cross-section, illustrating the connection between the fore-Wale and the afterwale of a horse-collar and the lacing of the outer cover of the pneumatic bags to such connection. Fig. 3 is a front view, and Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are cross-sections, of the edge of the outer cover of the pneumatic bags, illustrating the lacing looped through such edge and covered by an apron on said edge.

The skin of the fore-Wale A is sewed to the after-Wale B, as at present, and a welt a is inserted between the two selvages of such skin, thus forming a strong neck between the two wales of the collar. This neck is pierced with holes 5, which receive the lacing D, by which the outer cover 0 of the air-bags is attached to said neck. To the edge of the cover 0 is attached a leather apron c, and through the double thickness thus formed a series of holes d are pierced. Through these holes passes the looped lace D, as shown in Figs. 3 to 6. The apron c is folded over the cord D, as in Fig. 4, and after the loops have been threaded through the holes e in the apron c the latter is brought up the other side of the outer cover, as in Figs. 5 and 6. The outer coveris then laced to the collar by passing the loops D through the holes I) in the three-ply neck formed by the skin A and the welt a, as shown in Figs. 2 and 5. The loops are then laced through their neighbors, as in Fig. 1, the end loop being tied. A narrow strap f covers such lacing and passes around the neck beneath the hames and serves to protect the lacing from injury. The advantages gained by thus forming and lacing the edge of the cover 0 are that the said edge is strengthened and better resists the expansion of the inflated air-bags, while the apron 0 covers the lacing and guardsit from the sweat and moisture of the horse.

By loosening the end loop of the lacing the latter may be undone and the cover opened out in a very short time. The cover may also be relaced to the collar equally expeditiously.

The cover C has in most instances an inner coat of canvas r.

Having now described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A horse-collar comprising a fore-Wale and an after-wale, and having an apron or seamprotector 0 applied to the edge of the cover of the after-Wale, alined lacing-holes through said parts, the lace D formed with loops extended through said lacing-holes, said seamprotector folded back upon itself and around the cover edge and under the cover, whereby the lacing is covered and the edge of the aftier-Wale cover bound and the free edge of the protector lies under the cover of the afterwale, lacing-holes in the folded-under portion of the protector in line with the before-mentioned holes to also receive the loops of the lace D, said loops being further adapted to be passed through the other portions of the collar-neck and to be interlaced and secured to make a seam, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN FRY. JOHN WILLIAM BARNES. Witnesses:

J. A. GOUBROUGH, J. W. MEIKLE. 

